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Posted on 05/07/2025 9:22:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
People on motorcycles have a lot of reasons not to provoke largers vehicles.
6 wheels on dually ==Gross TONNAGE advantage
Most motorcyclists are only allowed one serious accident per lifetime.
I’ve had more than my share.......................
Yes, that is correct. I try not to provoke anyone while I'm riding.
I hope that is correct. I've had my one serious accident already.
It turns out that the biker was trying to talk to the driver about an extended car warranty....
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Saw this a couple days ago. It is bad. But it is also like watching some little guy with a complex, in a bar, start a fight with an MMA fighter. Hard to feel sorry for the guy on the bike. But it is bad.
I wonder how much Google paid some ‘expert’ to do a ‘study,’ ‘research’ and ‘testing’ to come up with this list.
I imagine that some other fool can come up with the counter to this argument. ;-)
“Hung up my helmet that day.”
I hung up my helmet the day my younger brother was killed on his bike by a hostile 4-wheel vehicle driver.
Drivers of 4-wheel vehicles have a hostile attitude toward bikes. That is probably because they can’t afford bikes, are resentful, jealous and envious. Others immediately think, “That guy driving that bike is a hippy, druggie, motorcycle-gang member.”
I saw that video. Amazing he survived. I go through atlanta quite a bit and I bought a camera system that gets wide angle front and rear view the front is 4k.
You see all kinds of stuff out there and then there’s insurance fraud.
Yeah... Don’t do that for exactly that reason. I’m no Saint while riding, but I have a good appreciation for the size disparity on the road.
Yep. And smart phones are why I stopped bicycle commuting.
Speaking for myself, it’s totally true that loud motors alert me to a close-by motorcycle.
There’s been countless hundreds of times over the past few decades of driving that I’ve heard a loud motor and glanced over, or behind, and was alerted to a motorcycle by me.
I appreciate people who do that.
I’ve never ridden a motorcyce, by the way
Agree. The best advice anyone ever gave me just before I bought my first bike: Assume you are invisible. And don’t get mad when people make mistakes.
I once scared the crap out of myself simply by going through an intersection at the posted speed limit - 45 - because there was a car looking to take a left and I realized I was not preparing myself for him turning in front of me. He didn’t, but if he had, it would have been bad.
When you are on a bike you may be in the right, but it won’t bring you back from the dead or being a quadriplegic. Your safety is strictly your responsibility.
I am not hostile towards bikes, I like them because they leave more gas for me to use, plus more space on the road for others. But the two things that do irritate me are when they cut to the front of the line at the red light, and then force me to stay out of their way when they don’t accelerate out of my way. The other is when they scare me splitting the lanes at seventy mph above the speed of the adjacent four wheel traffic. I’ve measured it on my in-car radar.
I am not hostile towards bikes, I like them because they leave more gas for me to use, plus more space on the road for others. But the two things that do irritate me are when they cut to the front of the line at the red light, and then force me to stay out of their way when they don’t accelerate out of my way. The other is when they scare me splitting the lanes at seventy mph above the speed of the adjacent four wheel traffic. I’ve measured it on my in-car radar.
No attempted murder charge? Please.
Cute proof why example must be made.
Save a life use it
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